Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan (1936-) was an NYPD detective who played a key role in the Central Park jogger case. An old-fashioned Irish policeman from north Manhattan, he joined the NYPD in 1965, and he took over 1,000 confessions in over 3,000 homicides over the next 25 years. He became a legendary detective with Manhattan North Homicie and, in 1989, he helped Linda Fairstein assemble a case against the arrested teenage suspects in the Central Park case. He was accused of coercing the suspects into making false and incriminating statements about themselves and the other suspects.